Tim Ferriss Reportedly Places Florida Home on the Public sale Block; Turns Out He By no means Owned a Home in Florida

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Time for slightly weekend enjoyable.

Right here’s the story: Realtor.com printed an article on January 17 titled “Self-Assist Guru Tim Ferriss Is Bored with Ready for a Purchaser, Places Florida Residence Up for Public sale” (don’t hassle trying it up, the article has since been taken down.)

In it, Realtor.com reported that productiveness maven Timothy Ferriss — podcaster, entrepreneur, and best-selling writer of “The 4-Hour Workweek” — acquired bored with ready for a purchaser to snap up his palatial Florida dwelling and determined to place it up for public sale.

The article — syndicated to information shops with thousands and thousands of readers, together with SF Gate — reported that Tim Ferriss’ choice was pushed by the truth that the property had been on and off the market since 2011, with asking costs steadily dropping through the years from $12.9 million to the present $7.2 million asking.

Now, right here’s the place the enjoyable half kicks in: apparently, Tim Ferriss has by no means owned any property in Florida.

Alerted by his guide agent, who learn the article in SF Gate and despatched it to Ferriss (apparently mocking him for his inside design decisions — scroll all the way down to see why), Ferriss took it to Twitter to make clear the entire ordeal:

The perfect half about this text is that I’ve by no means owned something in FL: “Self-Assist Guru Tim Ferriss Is Bored with Ready for a Purchaser, Places Florida Residence Up for Public sale” https://t.co/1rCo453Ewn My guide agent texted me with “You could have horrible style in dwelling decor.” pic.twitter.com/cOTaxydHQZ

— Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) January 20, 2019

 

With no hurt completed, Realtor.com was fast to take down the publish, and all syndicated variations quickly adopted. And whereas we don’t know what made the Realtor.com editorial employees assume this specific property belonged to Tim Ferriss, his Twitter followers have been fast to level out that it appears to be like nothing like one would think about Tim Ferriss’ home — and extra like one would image Tony Montana’s home. See for yourselves: